“You’ve seen the picture of me,” she said.
“Yes.”
“I’m not so unattractive,” she said.
“You’re quite attractive.”
“Did you like seeing me undressed?”
“Yes,” Jesse said.
“He doesn’t even bother to look,” she said.
“Whatever he does, or doesn’t do,” Jesse said, “it’s not because of you.”
“What?”
“The reason he is a womanizer is not in you,” Jesse said. “They’re in him.”
“You seem so sure,” Betsy said. “How do you know that?”
Jesse smiled at her.
“I am the chief of police,” he said, and opened the door.
61
JESSE PHONED Sunny Randall in the morning.
“You’re still seeing that shrink, right?” he said.
“Dr. Silverman,” Sunny said. “Yes, I am.”
“So you still think she’s good?”
“Very.”
“Okay, I might have someone I’d like to refer to her. She taking new patients?”
“I’ll ask her,” Sunny said.
“What’s her first name?” Jesse said.
“Susan,” Sunny said. “Susan Silverman.”
Jesse wrote it down.
“Got a phone number and address?”
Sunny gave him both. He wrote that down.
“How soon?” Jesse said.
“Will I ask?” Sunny said. “Today. I see her at ten. I can give you an answer about eleven.”
“Good,” Jesse said. “Woman’s name is Betsy Ingersoll.”
“The panty peeker?”
“Yep,” Jesse said.
“The recent Night Hawk victim?”
“Sort of,” Jesse said.
“Sort of ?”
“She faked it,” Jesse said.
“Faked it?” Sunny said. “Why would you want to send her to a shrink?”
“Everybody’s going,” Jesse said.
“Speaking of that, why not send her to Dix?”
“Too close,” Jesse said. “Dix wouldn’t do therapy with me and take on someone I’m involved with as a cop.”
“Of course not,” Sunny said. “Dumb question. Why’d she fake it?”
“Maybe to get her husband’s attention,” Jesse said. “Maybe other reasons.”
Sunny was quiet for a moment.
Then she said, “You’re going to squeeze her.”
“You think?” Jesse said.
“You’re going to give her a choice between being arrested for filing a false police report and going to see a shrink.”
“That’s correct,” Jesse said.
“You’re a good guy,” Sunny said, “but I’m not sure you’re that good. She strike a nerve?”
“She did,” Jesse said.
“Which you don’t care to discuss with me,” Sunny said.
“Not at the moment.”
